Food adulteration has become one of the gravest threats confronting Nigeria’s informal food sector. It is steadily eroding public confidence in the nation’s food supply, exposing millions of consumers to avoidable health hazards and undermining efforts to build a safe, secure and sustainable food system. Food nourishes and sustains life. When it instead becomes a […]

The 25-year concession signed by the Cross River State Government with Living Curation Real Estate Limited to redevelop Obudu Ranch Resort marks a welcome return to the original vision of Obudu as a world-class tourism destination driven by private investment, professional management and commercial discipline. Under this public-private partnership, the government retains ownership while the […]

The brazen attack on an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Permanent Voter Card (PVC) distribution centre in Okuku, Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State has raised fresh concerns about the desperation of political actors ahead of the Osun State governorship election scheduled for 15 August 2026. According to the Osun State Police Command, about […]

South Africa is once again disgracing itself. The latest wave of xenophobic attacks against African migrants, including Nigerians, Zimbabweans, Mozambicans and Somalis, has reopened wounds that should have healed after the shameful outbreaks of 2008, 2015 and 2019. Shops have been looted, businesses destroyed, homes abandoned and livelihoods shattered simply because fellow Africans crossed borders […]

The 2026 World Cup, jointly hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States, will be remembered less for goals than for the troubling intersection of sport and statecraft that unfolded across North America. FIFA’s projections and briefings indicate that the expanded 48 team tournament is set to be the most lucrative in history, with revenues […]

The allegation that teachers and other workers in Taraba State were directed to present photocopies of their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) before receiving their salaries has rightly provoked outrage across the country. The Taraba State Universal Basic Education Board (TSUBEB) has denied making salary payment contingent on PVC submission, insisting that its chairperson, Christiana Binga, […]

The National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA’s) deal with Chinese manufacturers marks a potentially important shift in how Nigeria engages with one of its biggest trading partners. Rather than simply expanding import flows, the tripartite agreement with the Linyi Wholesalers Federation and TTC Hydra Limited is framed to pull investment, […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) withdrawal from direct intervention funding for manufacturers comes at the worst possible time for an already pressured sector. Instead of moderating the pain from President Bola Tinubu’s harsh economic adjustments, this move risks deepening a credit squeeze that threatens Nigeria’s industrial base. On paper, the decision has one clear […]

Uncollected waste has become a permanent fixture along highways, markets, and residential streets of Lagos. Hardly any other Nigerian city wears its refuse crisis quite so visibly. Heaps of decomposing waste do more than disfigure a city that stands as the nation’s commercial capital. They breed rodents, flies, and mosquitoes, and with them the diseases […]

Nigeria should press ahead with finishing its national identity project, and fast. No modern state can govern, plan, or protect a population it cannot properly count. After nearly two decades of fits and starts, the country is finally within sight of getting this right. The numbers tell part of the story. More than 137 million […]

The Federal Government did well to suspend its proposed increase in the registration fees for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council (NECO) examinations. It is a decision that reflects not only sensitivity to public opinion but also a recognition of the harsh economic realities confronting Nigerian families. We are calling […]

Nigeria’s performance at the 2026 International STEM Olympiad in Rome was outstanding not only because of the medals won, but because it came from a broad spread of schools and subjects, showing that the country’s academic promise is still deeply embedded.  At a time when school abductions by jihadists and bandits, insecurity, and the wider […]

The Senate has finally given voice to a national outrage that has simmered for too long: Nigeria’s policy of rehabilitating and reintegrating so-called repentant Boko Haram fighters without doing them justice. It has outlived whatever limited utility its creators may once have claimed. A programme that begins with surrender and ends with return to the […]

Nigeria and the world are bleeding biodiversity at an alarming rate. Globally, the United Nations (UN) reports that 420 million hectares of forest, which is roughly the size of the European Union, have been lost since 1990, with mangroves vanishing even faster at 35 per cent of their original extent. In Nigeria, the Niger Delta’s mangrove […]

Nigeria’s absence from the 2026 World Cup is not fate. It is the bill finally arriving for years of reckless housekeeping at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and those responsible must be made to pay for it. Our football history shows that Nigeria rarely loses to better teams. It loses to itself. Rabat, en route […]